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Updated: May 14, 2025
"A nice lad of some two-and-twenty, A by name, goes out in a nondescript capacity as part purser, part telegraph clerk, part generally useful person. A was a great comfort during the miseries [of the gale]; for when with a dead head wind and a heavy sea, plates, books, papers, stomachs were being rolled about in sad confusion, we generally managed to lie on our backs, and grin, and try discordant staves of the 'Flowers of the Forest' and the 'Low-backed Car. We could sing and laugh, when we could do nothing else; though A was ready to swear after each fit was past, that that was the first time he had felt anything, and at this moment would declare in broad Scotch that he'd never been sick at all, qualifying the oath with 'except for a minute now and then. He brought a cornet-
I can give you nothing for a New Year's gift, but a prayer that you may keep your heart pure and true this is in your power you will be rich enough for a clear conscience is a Heaven in itself." So said old Gottlieb, and then he wrote down in an account-book the sum of two-and-twenty dollars that his son had given him. "All that you have cost me in childhood is now nearly paid up.
Some words had been said which had caused annoyance, and he did not intend to return. When he had been gone about an hour Lady Frances revealed the truth. Her brother at that time was two-and-twenty. She was a year younger. The clerk might perhaps be six years older than the young lady.
It was commanded by his Royal Highness Francis Ferdinand Philip Louis Marie d'Orleans, Prince de Joinville, a young prince two-and-twenty years of age, who was already distinguished in the service of his country and king.
"Martha!" she said, at last, "you are young" and then she made so long a pause that Martha, to remind her of her half-finished sentence, dropped a curtsey, and said "Yes, please, ma'am; two-and-twenty last third of October, please, ma'am." "And, perhaps, Martha, you may some time meet with a young man you like, and who likes you.
"I have one," replied Contreras, "but it is pledged for two-and-twenty maravedis for my supper; give me so much and I will fly to fetch it." "We have not a quarto amongst us all," said Doña Clara, "and you ask for two-and-twenty maravedis? Go your ways, Contreras, for a tiresome blockhead, as you always were."
Paula's brother was two-and-twenty, a frankly sensual youth, of admirable temper, great in turf matters, with a genius for conviviality. Jack's health was perfect, for he had his father's habit of enjoying life without excess, and his stamina allowed a wide limit to the term moderation.
But Ranjoor Singh let no man draw him from the main point to a lesser one. "You have leave," said he, "to take one box of cartridges and go! Gallipoli lies that way!" And he pointed through the rain. Then the two-and-twenty forgot me and began at once abusing Gooja Singh, he trying to refute them, and Ranjoor Singh watching them all with a feeling, I thought, of pity.
Miles stood musing a while, then began to walk the floor, muttering "The five arch-villains have survived the two-and-twenty leal and honest 'tis an odd thing." He continued walking back and forth, muttering to himself; he had forgotten the King entirely.
It is not to be thought that, however strange and uncommon I might think her liberal and unreserved communications, a young man of two-and-twenty was likely to be severely critical on a beautiful girl of eighteen, for not observing a proper distance towards him.
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